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Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Tending to stop hemorrhage. -- n.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa. -- n.

See Shagreen.

A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.

Vexation; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Circumesophagal.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

A kind of beetle which feeds upon dung.

Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.

See Cowhage.